[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.

So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.

Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood at the top of the stairs with Charles' sabre in her hand. Scarlett remembered that she had thought at the time: 'How silly! Melly couldn't even heft that sword!' But now she knew that had the necessity arisen, Melanie would have charged down those stairs and killed the Yankee - or been killed herself.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.